Summary
Howard Liu is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and terabyte-scale data pipelines, now applying that expertise at Credit Karma in the Bay Area. He blends backend engineering and data platform design—Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, and Python—with embedded BI and frontend work in React/TypeScript, having shipped full-stack analytics products. At Blue Onion he also explored generative AI and BigQuery ML for financial data classification, showing a practical bent for ML-in-production. A pragmatic engineering leader, he focuses on architecting solutions that map directly to business needs and reliably delivering them on schedule. Quietly versatile, his background ranges from early Excel pivot work at Microsoft to teaching and large-scale systems at Lyft and Brightloom.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology